Conscientious objector Uriel Ferera sentenced to prison for the fifth time for his refusal to join the Israeli Army.
Recently I received a petition, created by a group of 40 mothers, stating very clearly, “We do not wish to hand our boys to the IOF” (Israeli Occupation Forces), and calling for social responsibility and the end of Israel’s occupation of Palestine.
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We, a feminist movement of women and men, know that we need not live in a soldiers’ state. Israeli society is capable of a determined peace politics. It need not be a militarized society. We are convinced that we need not go on being endlessly recruited, need not go on living as soldiers. We wish to live in a civil society that fosters the values of tolerance and democracy and seeks peaceful solutions to its problems.
